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Size | 52.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 20,000 items) |
Abstract | The collection contains materials by and about white twentieth-century playwright and social justice activist Paul Green (1894-1981) of North Carolina and the administrative records of the Paul Green Foundation, a grant funding agency founded in 1982 to support the arts and human rights. Paul Green materials include correspondence, scripts, handwritten notes and outlines for dramatic works, musical scores, lyric sheets, a song book, research files for Green's symphonic dramas, a card file of idiomatic expressions compiled by Green and used in Paul Green's Wordbook: An Alphabet of Reminiscence, newspaper clippings, printed items especially from theatrical venues, and photographs chiefly of theatrical productions of his work. Symphonic dramas represented in the collection include Cross and Sword , Lone Star, The Common Glory, The Highland Call, Trumpet in the Land, Serenata, and The Stephen Foster Story. The administrative records are financial materials, extensive biographical files on Green including articles about him, minutes and agendas for board meetings, copies and transcriptions of Green's poetry from the First World War, files for events and projects including a centennial celebration of Green's birth in 1994, and correspondence especially with Rhoda H. Wynn and Laurence Avery. Of interest are files pertaining to the foundation and Green's active opposition to capital punishment and the letters by Avery and others requesting commutation of death sentences. |
Creator | Paul Green Foundation. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Encoded by: Laura Smith
Processed by Nicole Cvjetnicanin, March 2019
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